"Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata." (Wikipedia) Instead of storing bookmarks or favorites on your local computer, social bookmarking tools enable you to store them on the web, organize them in a variety of ways, add "tags" or keywords to them, annotate them, and access them from any computer. In addition, you can share the bookmarks with others and you can see what others have bookmarked. (You also have the ability to mark some or all of the bookmarks "private" so that only you can access them."
Access (and add to) your bookmarks from any computer! Never lose another link, email links to yourself, or paste them into a document to save or share them.
Discover resources saved by more than two million Diigo users with a keyword search, or by browsing specific tags or user libraries. Add your finds easily to your own Diigo library.TIP:Try searching Diigo as an alternative to Google when looking for resources for a particular topic.
Mark any bookmark asprivate by checking "Private" when you save it. (Only YOU will see these sites when you are logged into Diigo).
Save annotations on any web page using Highlighting and Comment features. View your own and others' shared annotations when you are logged into Diigo.
Easily share and collect resources with others!
Sharelibrary items with students or colleagues by giving them a single URL, e.g.
Use Diigo for Educators to create and manage student/class groups to support research, information fluency and collective resource-gathering.
What is a tag?
A tag is a user-assigned keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information." (Wikipedia) Unlike Sears or LC subject headings, there is no pre-defined list of acceptable terms. Tags allow users to define what a site or article means to them, assign it to a particular teacher or subject, and provide multiple access points. Users can add as many or as few tags as they feel appropriate to describe the article or website.
"Folksonomy (also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging) is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. In contrast to traditional subject indexing, metadata is not only generated by experts but also by creators and consumers of the content." (Wikipedia)
Tags are often displayed as tag "clouds." A tag cloud is a visual depiction of user-generated tags used typically to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single words and are typically listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is shown with font size or color." (Wikipedia) Clicking on a word in a tag cloud generally takes one to a list of items with that tag.
An example of a tag cloud can be found in the left-hand column of this page under the links to the different pages in this wiki. It was created by "tagging" each page of the wiki with appropriate terms and then using the built-in tag cloud widget to form the tag cloud.
(See Taggylicio.us where you can search multiple social software sites by just clicking on a tag from a giant tag cloud--or you can search by keyword. From the Sites and Soundbytesearch for something as wide-ranging as "library" and you will pull up results from Flickr, Youtube, Digg, Photobucket, Dailymotion, Reddit, and Del.icio.us. Click to see more in any given service or just browse the array of photos, videos and links before you. Simple and fast. This is a nice way to explore tagging and tags across several sites."} blog: "S
DIIGO Challenge
PART 1: View the Diigo "Learn More" Tour
Watch these three brief videos to learn how you can use Diigo to Research, Share and Collaborate. Learn about the "Get Annotated Link" feature -- think: providing students with directions for a web-based assignment or sharing an article with colleagues and asking for their thoughts about highlighted sections!
If you need help editing in our wiki, ask me. Only one person should edit the page at a time.
PART 2: Get Diigo and Install the Diigo Toolbar on Your Computer (if you haven't already done so before our course began)
Sign up for a Diigo account, install the Diigo Toolbar on the computer you are using for this course (lab computer or your own). and request an Educator upgrade. (NOTE: You must create a regular account first before you can request an Educator account). Click here for Diigo help to sign up, get the bookmark button, etc.
PART 3: Add sites to your library and our group library
(I have sent an invitation to each of you to join our LIS629 DIIGO GROUP, located at: http://groups.diigo.com/group/lis-629-2012. As you find good websites and also as we move through the course, you should bookmark those sites in your Diigo account - and add them to our group as well! To add a bookmark to the group, click on the Diigo bookmark button on your toolbar, click on bookmark, then click on 'share to a group' - Choose our group.)
BE SURE TO TAG YOUR RESOURCE WHEN YOU BOOKMARK IT! YOU MAY USE SUGGESTED TAGS BY DIIGO. YOU MUST INCLUDE THE TAG LIS629-12 ON ANYTHING YOU ADD TO OUR GROUP. The best part about Social Bookmarking is that it saves you time! Why reinvent the wheel? People share great bookmarks on sites like Diigo.
Go into your diigo account, click on "Community" and then do a search in the search box using the keyword: library2.0. Next click on the COMMUNITY LIBRARY TAB.AND THEN FIND AT LEAST 3 RESOURCES TO ADD TO OUR LIS629 DIIGO GROUP, adding a description and tags to each.
SCROLL DOWN THE PAGE, ON THE RIGHT SIDE YOU WILL SEE A LIST OF GROUPS THAT ARE INTERESTED IN LIBRARY2.0.JOIN THE TEACHER-LIBRARIAN GROUP AND ANY OTHER GROUP YOU ARE INTERESTED IN.
PART 4: BLOG REFLECTION
Write a brief blog post sharing your thoughts about Diigo and what you learned/noticed in your exploration and initial tagging experiences. Include any ideas you have for using DIIGO in your FUTURE SCHOOL LIBRARY (for yourself, with colleagues, and/or with students). Include a link to your Diigo library in the post (http://www.diigo.com/user/YOURUSERNAME)*.
CONGRATULATIONS! YOU ARE ON YOUR WAY TO HAVING AN AMAZING PROFESSIONAL LEARNING NETWORK (PLN).
What is social bookmarking?
"Social bookmarking is a method for Internet users to store, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of web pages on the Internet with the help of metadata." ( Wikipedia) Instead of storing bookmarks or favorites on your local computer, social bookmarking tools enable you to store them on the web, organize them in a variety of ways, add "tags" or keywords to them, annotate them, and access them from any computer. In addition, you can share the bookmarks with others and you can see what others have bookmarked. (You also have the ability to mark some or all of the bookmarks "private" so that only you can access them."
Common Craft Social Bookmarking Video
Diigo V5: Collect and Highlight, Then Remember! from diigobuzz on Vimeo.
A Few Diigo Features
What is a tag?
A tag is a user-assigned keyword or term associated with or assigned to a piece of information." ( Wikipedia) Unlike Sears or LC subject headings, there is no pre-defined list of acceptable terms. Tags allow users to define what a site or article means to them, assign it to a particular teacher or subject, and provide multiple access points. Users can add as many or as few tags as they feel appropriate to describe the article or website.
"Folksonomy (also known as collaborative tagging, social classification, social indexing, and social tagging) is the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content. In contrast to traditional subject indexing, metadata is not only generated by experts but also by creators and consumers of the content." ( Wikipedia)
Tags are often displayed as tag "clouds." A tag cloud is a visual depiction of user-generated tags used typically to describe the content of web sites. Tags are usually single words and are typically listed alphabetically, and the importance of a tag is shown with font size or color." ( Wikipedia) Clicking on a word in a tag cloud generally takes one to a list of items with that tag.
An example of a tag cloud can be found in the left-hand column of this page under the links to the different pages in this wiki. It was created by "tagging" each page of the wiki with appropriate terms and then using the built-in tag cloud widget to form the tag cloud.
(See Taggylicio.us where you can search multiple social software sites by just clicking on a tag from a giant tag cloud--or you can search by keyword. From the Sites and Soundbytesearch for something as wide-ranging as "library" and you will pull up results from Flickr, Youtube, Digg, Photobucket, Dailymotion, Reddit, and Del.icio.us. Click to see more in any given service or just browse the array of photos, videos and links before you. Simple and fast. This is a nice way to explore tagging and tags across several sites."}
blog: "S
DIIGO Challenge
PART 1: View the Diigo "Learn More" Tour
Watch these three brief videos to learn how you can use Diigo to Research, Share and Collaborate. Learn about the "Get Annotated Link" feature -- think: providing students with directions for a web-based assignment or sharing an article with colleagues and asking for their thoughts about highlighted sections!Post your Diigo user name and link it on this page in our wiki. It should be posted like this:
http://www.diigo.com/user/karenklieg (you substitute your diigo username where I have mine).
If you need help editing in our wiki, ask me. Only one person should edit the page at a time.
PART 2: Get Diigo and Install the Diigo Toolbar on Your Computer (if you haven't already done so before our course began)
Sign up for a Diigo account, install the Diigo Toolbar on the computer you are using for this course (lab computer or your own). and request an Educator upgrade. (NOTE: You must create a regular account first before you can request an Educator account). Click here for Diigo help to sign up, get the bookmark button, etc.PART 3: Add sites to your library and our group library
(CLICK ON ANATOMY OF A DIIGO SEARCH to understand what you are looking at.)
(I have sent an invitation to each of you to join our LIS629 DIIGO GROUP, located at: http://groups.diigo.com/group/lis-629-2012. As you find good websites and also as we move through the course, you should bookmark those sites in your Diigo account - and add them to our group as well! To add a bookmark to the group, click on the Diigo bookmark button on your toolbar, click on bookmark, then click on 'share to a group' - Choose our group.)
PART 4: BLOG REFLECTION
Write a brief blog post sharing your thoughts about Diigo and what you learned/noticed in your exploration and initial tagging experiences. Include any ideas you have for using DIIGO in your FUTURE SCHOOL LIBRARY (for yourself, with colleagues, and/or with students). Include a link to your Diigo library in the post (http://www.diigo.com/user/YOURUSERNAME)*.CONGRATULATIONS! YOU ARE ON YOUR WAY TO HAVING AN AMAZING PROFESSIONAL LEARNING NETWORK (PLN).
*After you have finished this challenge, go to Social Bookmarking in School Libraries to see a list of possibile uses.